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What if your next best-selling gift is already hiding within the products you create?

In this episode of The Greener Gifting Gang Podcast, Eve chats to Sarah Haugh of Sarah Haugh Designs, an upcycler and furniture designer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Sarah creates beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces by upcycling and transforming existing furniture, giving unwanted or overlooked items a new lease of life. Sustainability is at the heart of her business, from reusing furniture and materials to creating pieces designed to be treasured rather than replaced.

Her work has also gained national recognition, including being featured on BBC One's Money for Nothing and Shift the Thrift, and Sarah is a fellow Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday (SBS) winner.

We hear about how Sarah's pieces have been chosen as gifts for special occasions and how she took her existing designs and turned them into a smaller, more accessible gift product – one that flew out last Christmas.

It’s a brilliant example of how product-based businesses can find new gift ideas and sales opportunities.

We also have a refreshingly honest conversation about the reality of buying and receiving gifts. Social media often shows us beautifully styled gifts, perfectly chosen presents and picture-perfect reactions. But real-life gifting isn't always like that and Sarah shares her own perspective on the expectations and pressures around choosing and receiving gifts.

If you sell handmade, creative or sustainable products, listen in and see what Sarah’s experience sparks for your own business.

Connect with Sarah

https://www.sarahhaughdesigns.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/sarahhaughdesigns
https://www.facebook.com/sarahhaughdesigns

Mentioned in this episode

Ep 47 Ditch the Gift Giving Guilt with Gill Sealey
BBC Money for Nothing
BBC Shift the Thrift

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